Wombat Books Rhiza Press 2016 · Life is extraordinarily fun with Ruby Wishfingers. RRP: $9.99 (Paperback: 96 pages) Ruby Wishfingers is an ordinary girl ... except for her extraordinary

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Relevant topics.Real characters.

stories that connect.

Wombat BooksRhiza Press

2016

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Hazy mazy oops a daisy, wriggle your ears but don’t go crazy!

Annabel is no ordinary sheep. She is wiggly and jiggly. Loud noises hurt her ears and no matter how hard she tries, she just can’t fit in with the mob.

But how will the mob deal with Annabel once her super-sensitivities bring her unexpected attention?

Capturing the essence of what some children have to deal with on an everyday basis, this story of a mud-puddle coloured sheep celebrates our uniqueness.

Author: Diane Jackson Hill

Illustrator: Lois Bury

Publication date: 1 February 2016

ISBN: 9781925139358

RRP: $24.99 (Hardback: 32 pages)

Jack and Mia

Author: Robert Vescio

Illustrator: Claire Richards

Publication date: 1 October 2016

ISBN: 9781925139730

‘Jack and Mia is a charming story of two friends whom nothing (not even an ocean) can part.’ – Sally Odgers, Author.


Jack and Mia are best friends. They stick together like paper and glue and nothing can tear them apart.

Until the unthinkable happens and Mia’s family has to move away. Can they prove that distance is no barrier to true friendship?

A heartwarming story about loneliness, acceptance and the separation of close friends.

Written by Robert

Vescio

Illustrated by Cla

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Annabel especially relates to children who have sensitivities such as those with ASD.

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Annabel’s Dance

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Marty's Nut-free Party

Author: Katrina Roe

Illustrator: Leigh Hedstrom

Publication date: 1 September 2012

ISBN: 9781921633362

Marty loved to party. At every party, Marty was the first to arrive and the last to leave. That was before Marty found out that peanuts make him sick. Really sick. Short-listed: Speech Pathology Award Australia, 2013. CALEB Children’s awards, 2014.


Emily Eases her Wheezes

Author: Katrina Roe


Publication date: 31 December 2014

ISBN: 9781925139129

If Emily tries to play basketball, she ends up puffing. What can you do when asthma stops you from playing with your friends? Children’s Book Council Awards Notable Book 2015. Recommended title: Family Therapists Australia.


Same

Author: Katrina Roe

Illustrator: Jemima Trappel

Publication date: 1 July 2015

ISBN: 9781925139266

Same is a touching true story about love, acceptance and finding common ground.


How do we see beyond differences?

When Uncle Charlie comes to visit, Ivy keeps her distance. He seems different from other people she knows. Can Uncle Charlie find a way to show her that he is not so different after all?

Same helps a child appreciate what is actually the same, in someone who seems so different.

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Happy PantsComing HomeAuthor: Sharon McGuinness

Illustrator: Shannon Melville


ISBN: 9781921633775

Gemma watches her dad as he sits alone in his tangled garden. She doesn’t understand why he seems so sad. I wonder if it’s dark and lonely in that other place. Recommended title: Family Therapists Australia.


Illustrated by Liz McGrath

Heather Gallagher

Happy Pants is a heartfelt way to help older children know that their mum’s postnatal depression is not because of them, that dads are loving and caring, families can support each other and that mum will get better with help. BelindaHorton,ChiefExecutiveOfficer,PANDA (Post&AntenatalDepressionAssociation)

WithPNDstilloftenhiddenornotspokenabout,thisbookoffersthe opportunity to begin the conversation. DrNicoleHighet,ExecutiveDirector,COPE (CentreofPerinatalExcellence)

When Mummy wears her happy pants we build sandcastles, go out for babycinos and have lots and lot of cuddles. But when she comes home with baby Darcy, her happy pants stay in her wardrobe…

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ISBN: 978-1-921632-93-8

WhyisMummysosad?

When I see Grandma

Author: Debra Tidball


Publication date: 1 March 2014

ISBN: 9781921632594

A young girl shares the things she loves with Grandma, brightening her dreams and bringing warmth and laughter to the aged care home.Short-listed for Speech Pathology Award 2014.


The Bear Said Please

Author: Jacque Duffy

Illustrator: Jacque Duffy

Publication date: 1 April 2014

ISBN: 9781921632945

In this fun rhyming picture book, the bear wakes up with a growling tummy and thinks to himself ‘I need some honey’. When he can’t find any at home he sets off in his car to find a hive and discovers the importance of manners.


Author: Heather Gallagher

Illustrator: Liz McGrath

Publication date: 1 May 2014

ISBN: 9781921632938

When Mummy wears her happy pants we build sandcastles, go out for babycinos and have lots of cuddles. But when she comes home with baby Darcy, her happy pants stay in her wardrobe. A book to help children understand post-natal depression. Recommended title: Family Therapists Australia.


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Do you Remember?

Alzheimer’s Australia encouragesopportunities for children or grandchildren to talk openly, ask questions and express their feelings about dementia. Children’s literature may be a valuable starting point to raise awareness of dementia and how it affects families for young readers.

A child explores the loving memories shared with their grandparent whose own are drifting away.

Do you remember how much we loved each other?

The times we would spend all day in the fields?

You’d tell me stories and we would laugh for hours.

Those fields always remind me of you.

Author: Kelly O’Gara and Anna McNeil

Illustrator: Kelly O’Gara


ISBN: 9781925139242


Zoo Ball

Author: Aleesah Darlison

Illustrator: Australian children


ISBN: : 9781925139433

As a special project, Wombat Books and award-winning author, Aleesah Darlison, worked with twenty young people from around Australia to create this unique picture book illustrated solely by children. We hope you enjoy it as much as we have!


When Ned takes his bouncing ball to the zoo, it causes a ruckus among the animals as they all have their turn playing with it.

Follow Ned’s ball as it bounces from tiger to toucan and tapir too - as well as many other favourite animals at the zoo.

A humorous rhyming picture book full of fun and laughs.

Along the way you will discover the talents of 20 young Australian artists from schools across the country.

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Kindness: The Invisible Tree

Author: Kirrily Lowe

Illustrator: Henry Smith

Publication date: 1May 2016

ISBN: 9781925139723

Kindness – the fifth book in the inspirational Invisible Tree Series captures a child’s journey of compassion to find the virtue of kindness.


‘Like streams of water in a dry land, is the gift of kindness in my hand.’

In Kindness a little girl learns about the greatest gift of all. Kindness is something she wants to keep but on her journey, she realises kindness is something you have to give away.

Mustara

Star! Stable! Saviour!

Author: Cameron Semmens

Illustrator: Rod Allen

Publication date: 1 November 2015

ISBN: 9781925139600

Witty and wordy, strange and absurd-y, truthful and fun for all the family: this is the Christmas story superbly retold by Cameron Semmens using virtually nothing but words starting with ‘S’.

RRP: $11.99 (Paperback: 32 pages)

Author: Rosanne Hawke

Illustrator: Robert Ingpen


ISBN: 9781925139259

Beltana, 1875: Every day Taj and his camel Mustara look out onto a sea of yellow-red dust and stones. Taj longs to join Ernest Giles’ trek to Perth. But can Taj and Mustara prove their strength and courage before the desert turns wild?Shortlisted in the NSW Premier Literary Awards, 2006.


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Love: The Invisible TreeJoy: The Invisible Tree




ISBN: 9781922074850

“I’ve lost my joy where could it be?” In Joy a young girl is on a quest to find her joy! Is it under the apple tree, is it out to sea, or is it in something that we cannot see? A message for little ones and big ones – where do we go to find joy when we have lost it?


Peace: The Invisible TreeAuthor: Kirrily Lowe



ISBN: 9781925139143

Polly finds Peace in a storm, surprising as it may seem. They ride the waves together, and fly like in a dream.


Patience: The Invisible Tree




ISBN: : 9781921632587

Sam is tired of waiting so long, his waiting heart is not so strong. Until patience grows down deep inside and joins him on the waiting ride.





ISBN: 9781922074829

Love is the first book in The Invisible Tree Series, an inspirational and beautifully illustrated series of children’s books seeking to capture timeless values and virtues.


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Little MeerkatSpider Iggy


Illustrator: Sarah Jane Hinder

Publication date: 1 August 2015

ISBN: 9781925139334

In the cold, grey city no one ever seems to notice Spider Iggy. As he spins his web into beautiful and intricate designs, he dreams of a faraway land filled with colour and light.

Also available in paperback. ISBN: 9781925139426 ($14.99)





ISBN: 9781921632822

Little Meerkat craves independence and adventure, so it’s just as well his extended family are there to guide and protect him!

Also available in paperback. ISBN: 9781925139396 ($14.99)


Little Good Wolf




ISBN: 9781921633645

Little Good Wolf doesn’t want to follow in his dad’s footsteps, especially when he has trouble finding friends. Isn’t there more to life than being big and bad? Is it too late to help good old dad?


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Ruby Wishfingers: Toad-ally Magic!Ruby Wishfingers: Skydancer's Escape

Author: Deborah Kelly



ISBN: 9781925139631

Life is extraordinarily fun with Ruby Wishfingers.


Ruby Wishfingers is an ordinary girl ... except for her extraordinary name.

One day she wakes with a strange feeling in the tips of her fingers and discovers she has inherited a marvellous gift: the power to wish for whatever she wants!

But wishes don’t always turn out quite how you expect ...

Come with Ruby on a magical adventure. Meet a talking cat, experience jelly-bean rain and chase a runaway, pocket-sized unicorn!

Author: Deborah Kelly



ISBN: 9781925139815

Ruby is back ... and so are her wishes!


With a head full of plans for the holidays, Ruby’s fingertips are already tingling with magic. That is, until Mum announces that Ruby’s horrible little toad of a cousin is coming to stay.

But some problems can’t just be wished away. Ruby’s wish for her cousin to turn into a real toad breaks magic’s most important rule. And when rules are broken, especially magic ones, there are unexpected consequences.

Join Ruby and her little brother, Jellybean on another extraordinary adventure exploring a winter wonderland, experiencing life as a slimy toad and finding out what happens when magic falls into the wrong paws!

www.rubywishfingers.com.au

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Tom Topp and the Great Adventure Swap

Author: Lisa Limbrick

Illustrator: Jemima Trappel


ISBN: 9781925139754


Tom Topp is looking forward to the adventure of a lifetime but when he suddenly breaks his leg at soccer training, everything changes.

Instead of going water skiing, hiking and ice skating with his brothers, Tom finds himself in a shopping centre with his mum where the most embarrassing things start to happen.

Worst of all, he’s stuck in an old wheelchair that smells like rotten eggs! But will this unexpected turn of events ultimately become the best adventure of all?

Daystar: The Days are Numbered

Author: Anne HamiltonPublication date: 26 January 2016

ISBN: 9781925139518

‘What’s to stop me killing you and taking the Powers?’ The giant raised the sword. ‘All I see is a dwarf, a pony and seven children, none of whom is even remotely capable of resisting the might of Uller Princekiller.’


For centuries, the knights, dwarves, giants and sages of Auberon-Zamberg have been intent on a single quest. They’re all searching for ‘The King Who Guards the Gate’. Prophecy speaks of him as one of seven protectors who will defeat the armies of night and overcome the Dark Sleeper.

The last thing anyone is expecting is that these seven protectors are ordinary children.

Suitable for 10 years +

Full 240 page teaching resource also available.ISBN: 9781925139747RRP: 49.99

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Small and Pure: A Cautionary Tale

Many years ago, when children loved to hear fairy stories and parents loved to read them, cautionary tales were used to teach us about choices and consequences. These most beloved fables brought to life long-known sage and moral life lessons. It’s in the tradition of these folk tales of old we learn the story of Small and Pure.

Small and Pure encourages us to seek and hold onto our most authentic truths, lest we become burdened with identities that disguise, bury and eventually cause our very essence to disappear, perhaps forever.

It’s a story that could change your life.

Author: Jo Hilder

Publication date: 1 June 2016

ISBN: 9781925139624


A picture book for grown-up girls about self, identity and our true names.

Author: Andrew Lansdown


ISBN: 9781925139419


Of Petals and Poets

The waka poetsweighted the cherry petalswith sad sentiment …Nonetheless they sail the airas if unburdened with care.

Kyoto Sakura Tanka

Kyoto Sakura Tanka is a beautiful collection of poems and photographs that pays tribute to the ancient capital of Japan, Kyoto, during the cherry blossom (sakura) season.

This unique book takes readers on a fascinating journey through Japan’s heartland, introducing them to subjects ranging from birds, bamboos and blossoms to omikuji, origami and shishi-odoshi, in settings ranging from canals and gardens to castles and temples.

All the poems are written in a form traditional to Japan, an ancient poetic form known as tanka (or waka).

This full colour gift book is Lansdown’s fifteenth published collection of poetry and first of photography.

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The Kingdom of the Air

1940. The Battle of Britain has begun.

A young Messerschmitt pilot is shot down over Dartmoor. He tries to evade a manhunt, knowing that if he is captured by the British, his war will be over. But when Josef Schafer falls into the hands of a sinister agent of the Special Operations Executive, his troubles have only begun. He is returned to occupied France having made an impossible deal with the British.

As the air war escalates, Josef is in danger in the sky and on the ground.

The stakes are high. Whoever controls the sky above the English Channel will decide the fate of nations ...

Author: C.T. Wells


ISBN: 9781925139662


This must read adventure is the ...

Winner of the CALEB Unpublished Fiction 2014.

Winner of the Clive Cussler Adventure Writer’s Competition 2015.

Next of Kin

Author: Carol Preston


ISBN: 9781925139365


Percy Smith has always wondered why he didn’t identify with his father, but he never expected the revelation about his past that comes at the beginning of the First World War. In shock and pain he finds himself in a place far from home, where he meets Mabel Smart, a young woman who is also struggling to find her own identity in her family.

Author: Carol Preston


ISBN: 9781925139211


Fanny Franks was raised to believe in honesty, equality and acceptance. When she meets brothers Jack and Jim, she is drawn to them by the alienation and injustice which seems to pervade their lives. She is determined to intervene and help them find happiness, until trauma in her own life brings discrimination and shame.

Beyond the Fight

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Empire's Children

Too Pretty

Author: Patricia Weerakoon


ISBN: 9781925139303


In the tea plantation of Sri Lanka, Shiro, the daughter of the Tea-maker, and Lakshmi the Indian labourer are bound by friendship but separated by the cultural expectations. Tragedy, grief and separation threaten Shiro and shackle Lakshmi in the bondage of class distinction.

Author: Andrea Grigg


ISBN: 9781925139068


When being beautiful means you are constantly criticised, how would you react? Ellie Paxton has endured more than her fair share of criticism – simply because she’s beautiful – even from her Christian friends. Frustrated by a long string of empty relationships, Ellie determines to stop dating for six months. But will she?

The Pounamu Prophecy

The Viking Stone

Author: Cindy Williams


ISBN: 9781925139457


Two women, two cultures and an ancient Maori prophecy that will change their lives. Weaving fiction with the traumatic history of the Ngati Whatua tribe of Auckland, The Pounamu Prophecy sweeps from the sultry heat of Australia to the verdant shores of New Zealand.

Author: Nick Hawkes


ISBN: 9781925139488


Adam Hollingworth’s dreams are shattered by the death of his fiancée. The demons of grief pursue him as he journeys from Australia to England to hide amidst the marshes of the Thames Estuary, an area renowned for its secrets and its smuggling.

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Integrate

Replicate

Author: Adele Jones


ISBN: 9781925139099


Trust the science - unless your life depends on it. Radical gene therapy saved Blaine Colton’s life. Now living as a normal teen, he deprived of life-sustaining medication after claims his life saving treatment is illegal. For answers, he must escape an ambitious medical researcher, and find the developer of his treatment. But time is running out. Fast.

Author: Adele Jones


ISBN: 9781925139570


Blaine Colton is pulled into a chilling conspiracy when he discovers embryonic clones with his name on them. Convinced the research has breached ethics agreements, he brings close friends, Sophie and Jett Faraday, in on a scheme to find answers. But someone’s watching him. Someone wants him dead.

Dear Pakistan



ISBN: 978-1925139549


Jaime returns to Australia after growing up in Pakistan and the shocks come thick and fast. Boys try to kiss her, girls think she’s weird and everyone wears shorts! How will she ever know what to say or do or wear? Dear Pakistan is the re-release of Rosanne’s title Re-Entry. A clever twist on the now well-worn theme of immigrant experience. - John Murray, Magpies

Zenna Dare


Publication date: 1 July 2014

ISBN: 9781925139037


A secret spans five generations from Cornwall to Australia. When Jenefer moves to the old family home in country Kapunda, she uncovers a hidden box of artefacts from the past. What sort of life did Gweniver, her great-great-great-grandmother, lead? And what connection did she have to the glamorous young singer, Zenna Dare?

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John WesleyA Summary of the Bible

Author: David Malcolm Bennett


ISBN: 9781925139273


Wesley is painted in a picture that is vivid and enduring. He appears in these pages as a real man, not a plastic saint, with all his astonishing talents, his clever sense of humour and his tragic weaknesses.

Author: Nick Hawkes


ISBN: 9781925139006


This comprehensive summary is about one sixth the size of the full Bible. Each book of the Bible has an introductory page providing background details, and key scriptures are included in full. A great resource for helping you understand the greatest book in history.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon Revisited

Author: David Malcolm Bennett

Publication date: 1 February 2016

ISBN: 9781925139693


A private and exciting insight into the Prince of Preachers’ life. While some Spurgeon biographies of similar scope are just factual, this one paints the excitement of Spurgeon’s life in full colour. It is written in a vivid style, with plenty of action and interaction.

Author: E. B. James


ISBN: 9781925139150


Detective Sergeant Steve Keller has begun to see things. Mortal Insight is a novel that brings conspiracy, crime, action and asks the question: when your life is at stake, are some truths worth bringing out into the open?

Mortal Insight

Front cover image from Do You Remember? Illustrator Kelly O’Gara

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Wombat Books Rhiza Press 2016 · Life is extraordinarily fun with Ruby Wishfingers. RRP: $9.99 (Paperback: 96 pages) Ruby Wishfingers is an ordinary girl ... except for her extraordinary